Agile Product Owner

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT); Stuttgart; Vor Ort; EUR 123.000 - 167.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) seeks an Agile Product Owner to translate product vision into a structured backlog for enterprise IT projects on customer-site deployments. You will drive roadmaps, ensure stakeholder alignment, and guide the team through sprint cycles with a focus on delivering value.

The role requires at least five years of software or data engineering with Agile methods, and familiarity with ServiceNow, Jira and Confluence.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• Minimum five years of experience as a Product Owner with Agile tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, and Confluence.
• Maintain SAFe certifications (e.g., SPC, SAFe Product Manager/Owner) and obtain if not held within 30 days of arrival.

Aufgaben

• Define and maintain the product vision, roadmap, and backlog aligned with business goals.
• Prioritize backlog items based on value, customer needs, and technical feasibility.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements.
• Communicate with customers, leaders, and team members to align on requirements and expectations.
• Ensure backlog readiness for development and clarity of work for the team.
• Support sprint planning, ensure goals are clear, and verify delivery against criteria.
• Coordinate releases and validate product against defined requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Elicit data model needs and advise on updates to enterprise data models.

Kenntnisse

Agile product ownership

Stakeholder management

Backlog management

Sprint planning

Requirements definition

Data modeling

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

ServiceNow

Jira

Confluence

Jobbeschreibung

Job Description

Transform technology into opportunity as a Systems Administrator with GDIT. A career in enterprise IT means connecting and enhancing the systems that matter most. At GDIT you’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate.

Agile Product Owner

Duties/Responsibilities

The Agile Product Owner’s primary responsibility is to ensure that the development team has a clear understanding of the product vision, goals, and requirements. The Agile Product Owner should have at least five years of software or data engineering development and deployment using Agile methods. Major responsibilities and duties include:

• Product Vision and Roadmap: Define and maintain the product vision, roadmap, and backlog, ensuring they align with business objectives and stakeholder expectations.
• Prioritization: Prioritize the product backlog, making decisions about which features to develop, and in what order, based on business value, customer needs, and technical feasibility.
• Requirements Definition: Define and refine product requirements, including user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements, ensuring they are clear, concise, and testable.
• Stakeholder Management: Communicate with stakeholders, including customers, business leaders, and team members, to understand their needs, expectations, and concerns, and ensure that the product meets their requirements.
• Backlog Management: Manage the product backlog, ensuring it is up-to-date, refined, and ready for development, and that the development team has a clear understanding of the work to be done.
• Sprint Planning: Collaborate with the development team during sprint planning, ensuring that the team understands the work to be done, and that the sprint goals and objectives are clear.Feedback and
• Validation: Work with the development team to validate assumptions, gather feedback, and ensure that the product meets the defined requirements and acceptance criteria.Release Planning: Plan and coordinate releases, ensuring that the product is delivered to stakeholders and customers in a timely and effective manner.
• Data Model: Elicit from stakeholders and make recommendations to update and maintain a visual and metadata Enterprise data model.

An enterprise data model is a visual and metadata representation of an organization's data, describing how data entities and the business processes that create them relate to one another. It defines the structure, relationships, and constraints of data and business processes, including entities, attributes, metadata, and data types. Data models help ensure data consistency, reduce data redundancy, and improve data integrity, making it easier to design, implement, and manage databases and improve Combatant Commander (CCMD) and Joint Director (JDIR) processes with data

Qualifications

Education : Bachelor's degree in computer in computer science or related field of study.

Experience : This position requires a minimum of five years' experience with servicing as a product owner with additional experience with appropriate industry standard digital tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, and Confluence.

Certification : Maintain the current version of at least one of the following Scaled Agile Framework certifications: SAFe Practice Consultant, SAFe Practice Consultant Trainer, Advanced SPC, Agile Product Manager, or Product Owner / Product Manager. If the Agile Product Owner does not have this certification at the time he or she is identified it, then he or she must obtain it no later than 30 days following arrival to the primary place of performance.

Additional Requirements : Candidate must meet Germany TESA requirements as follows:

• Germany: A Bachelor's Degree and three (3) years of recent specialized experience; or
• Associates Degree and seven (7) years of recent specialized experience; or
• No degree and 11 years or recent specialized experience.

Security Clearance Level : TS/SCILocation: On Customer SiteUS Citizenship Required

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.

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The likely salary range for this position is $140,250 - $189,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range. Total compensation for international positions varies by tax, social security, and immigration statuses, as well as location. Generally, an international assignment may include allowances, premium uplifts, and/or relocation or transportation benefits, above base salary range noted.

Total Rewards at GDIT

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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